Kitchen Safety

Just as important as food safety comes the topic of kitchen safety. Of course you want to safely prepare and eat good food, but it is also important that you look out for and prevent accidents of a personal nature as well. This lesson focuses on safe practices in the kitchen and a presentation, activity ideas, and worksheets for teaching a lesson on this topic.

An additional activity to the ones above is MyPyramid Comparison activity. For this activity, you would have your students draw MyPyramid as it is supposed to be and then next to it draw their personal one. Making sure that the largest areas on the pyramid are the areas that contain the foods that they eat the most. Lis

Listed below are other resources to use including a great resource for your use and student use! It helps students to easily find the calories of foods based on the amount that they eat. Excellent resource!

Cooking and Preparation Terms

The lesson below focuses on the common terms that are used during the cooking and preparation of food. You can either use the following presentation of cooking/preparation terms being defined and illustrated or have your students work in groups to create their own focusing on one specific type of terms such as mixing terms, cutting terms, dry cooking methods, moist cooking methods, etc. Then you would have your students present their presentations to the class making sure that their presentations contain visuals as well.